• Inaugural PyTorch Santa Cruz Meetup

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    A community gathering of people interested in PyTorch and the projects that use it – not an official PyTorch organization. Sponsored by Red Hat and University of California Santa Cruz […]

    Free
  • Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group

    Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants […]

  • First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

  • Research Lunch & Learn: Federal policy updates

    Virtual Event

    Another year under the current administration has created significant ongoing federal agency and policy changes, much of which has significant impacts on universities and research. Join John MacMillan, Vice Chancellor for Research (and interim Provost/EVC), and Csilla Csaplár, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, for an interactive discussion about current hot topics in the federal policy […]

  • Networking Strategies and Building Your Professional Brand

    Virtual Event

    Networking and personal branding go hand-in-hand, and in today’s highly competitive job market, these things are more critical than ever! Join us for an interactive workshop that provides actionable, real-world strategies to help you get started on building a powerful personal brand, optimizing your digital presence, and potentially converting networking into career opportunities, both in-person […]

  • Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden Member Reception

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Current members of the Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden are invited to our annual Member Reception in the Hay Barn on July 8. Learn about the Friends’ and the Center for Agroecology’s plans for the upcoming fiscal year while enjoying wine & beer, non-alcoholic beverages and hearty appetizers made with produce from the […]

    Free
  • Carrión, H. (CSE) – Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Representation Learning and Understanding

    Virtual Event

    AI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine, and particularly in dermatology, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones, body sites, and disease types, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce, demographically imbalanced, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet, which learns wound healing stages from […]

  • Levine, R. (CSE) – Validating GPU Memory Consistency and Safety at Scale

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become essential platforms for parallel computing, supporting applications far beyond graphics. Central to GPU programming models is its memory consistency specification (MCS), which defines the semantics of concurrent shared-memory operations and interacts with other language features to determine security guarantees such as memory safety. Understanding whether implementations conform to an […]

  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the […]

  • Scott, J. (CSE) – Mechanistic Specialization Does Not Guarantee Performance: Evidence from Dual AttentionTransformers

    Virtual Event

    Dual Attention Transformers (DATs) extend decoder-only Transformers with a dedicated relational-attention stream, making them a natural architecture for abstract identity rules such asABA and ABB. Surprisingly, we find that comparably sized GPT-2 models outperform DATs on these tasks. We investigate this gap with two complementary mechanistic analyses. First, causal mediation analysis shows that DATs exhibit […]

  • Kembay, A. (ECE) – Sparse and Continual Foundations for Adaptive General Intelligence

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    While the human brain learns continually, mastering new tasks without forgetting the old and adapting to unfamiliar ones from context alone, modern neural networks still lack both. To bridge the gap between biological adaptivity and modern AI, we have established foundational work on sparsity as a computational principle at three levels of neural computation, through […]

  • July Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor Aide Macias-Munoz

    Virtual Event

    Unlocking the blueprint for regeneration: Insights from Hydra Regeneration, the ability to heal and regrow lost body parts, varies across species, tissues, and even cell types. To harness regenerative ability for medicine, we need to understand the genetic mechanisms that are similar across regenerating species. My lab uses Hydra, a small freshwater relative of jellyfish, to investigate […]

  • Volunteer at the UCSC Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Volunteer Information Sessions at the Arboretum Do you love gardens and gardening? The UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden has a wonderful community of staff, students, and volunteers, ready to welcome you. Opportunities include staffing our gift shop & retail nursery and working to care for our gardens and greenhouses.  To learn more, join us at […]

  • Post Grad Job Search: Build a Standout Resume with AI

    Life After Graduation Series Hosted by UC Davis and COOP Careers, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. Join the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another session in the Life After Graduation Series, “Post-Grad Job Search: Build a Standout Resume with AI,” presented by COOP Careers, on Tuesday, July 14 at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific […]

    Free
  • Resume and Cover Letter Workshop

    Virtual Event

    Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing a great job or internship. Join us for this informative workshop to learn current best practices for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. Topics include: Tailoring your resume to the job description Formatting tips Creating impactful bullet points Writing a […]

  • A New Graduate’s Guide to Investing

    Life After Graduation Series Hosted by UC Davis, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. Join the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another session in the Life After Graduation Series, “A New Graduate’s Guide to Investing,” on Wednesday, July 15 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). This practical workshop is designed to help new […]

    Free
  • Beyond the Algorithm: How to Get Noticed When Everyone Is Using AI

    Beyond the Algorithm: How to Get Noticed When Everyone Is Using AI With Armine Kulikyan Wednesday, Jul. 15 | 6 p.m. (PT) Virtual via Zoom Hosted by UCLA Alumni Association, open to all UC alumni A career workshop teaching alumni how to use AI strategically to stand out, not blend in. LEARN MORE & REGISTER

    Free
  • Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night

    The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 Season, featuring Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. The 2026 season runs from July 16 – August 30. Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies. Of all the couples in Shakespeare, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and […]

  • Calicchio, A. (BMEB) – Comparison of long-read sequencing and analysis methods for transcriptome analysis

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive
    Hybrid Event

    Alternative splicing, the process generating different RNA isoforms from a single gene, is considered one of the main factors driving increased organism complexity in eukaryotes. Variations in isoform and gene expression produce the functional differences that give rise to different cell types and, in some cases, result in disease. Long-read RNA sequencing has transformed our […]

  • Getting Involved in Your Campus Community

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    In this workshop, you will: Learn how to get involved with the campus community and how it supports student success. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each […]